Facts and Artefacts - Art in the Islamic World
Title | Facts and Artefacts - Art in the Islamic World PDF eBook |
Author | Annette Hagedorn |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 524 |
Release | 2007-11-13 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 9047422813 |
The scholarly search on the art of the object is of enduring interest and enjoys a new renaissance in the last few years. This book mainly explores the art and craft of Islamic artefacts and presents to the reader a diverse range of approaches. Despite this variety, in which also artefacts of the pre-Islamic, period as well as 'orientalized' European artefacts of the modern era are included, there is an overarching theme – the linking of the interpretation of objects and their specific aesthetics to textual sources and the aim of setting them in historical and artistic context. In this impressive collection honouring the German scholar of Islamic art Jens Kröger on his 65th birthday, Avinoam Shalem and Annette Hagedorn bring together contributions from a highly distinguished group of scholars of Asiatic, Sasanian, Islamic as well as European art history. Unpublished artefacts and new interpretations are presented in this book.
Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797
Title | Venice and the Islamic World, 828-1797 PDF eBook |
Author | Institut du Monde Arabe (Paris) |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2007-01-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0300124309 |
From 828, when Venetian merchants carried home from Alexandria the stolen relics of St. Mark, to the fall of the Venetian Republic to Napoleon in 1797, the visual arts in Venice were dramatically influenced by Islamic art. Because of its strategic location on the Mediterranean, Venice had long imported objects from the Near East through channels of trade, and it flourished during this particular period as a commercial, political, and diplomatic hub. This monumental book examines Venice's rise as the "bazaar of Europe" and how and why the city absorbed artistic and cultural ideas that originated in the Islamic world. Venice and the Islamic World, 828–1797 features a wide range of fascinating images and objects, including paintings and drawings by familiar Venetian artists such as Bellini, Carpaccio, and Tiepolo; beautiful Persian and Ottoman miniatures; and inlaid metalwork, ceramics, lacquer ware, gilded and enameled glass, textiles, and carpets made in the Serene Republic and the Mamluk, Ottoman, and Safavid Empires. Together these exquisite objects illuminate the ways Islamic art inspired Venetian artists, while also highlighting Venice's own views toward its neighboring region. Fascinating essays by distinguished scholars and conservators offer new historical and technical insights into this unique artistic relationship between East and West.
Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World
Title | Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World PDF eBook |
Author | Venetia Porter |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 599 |
Release | 2012-06-29 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0857733435 |
The material and visual culture of the Islamic World casts vast arcs through space and time, and encompasses a huge range of artefacts and monuments from the minute to the grandiose, from ceramic pots to the great mosques. Here, Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen assemble leading experts in the field to examine both the objects themselves and the ways in which they reflect their historical, cultural and economic contexts. With a focus on metalwork, this volume includes an important new study of Mosul metalwork and presents recent discoveries in the fields of Fatimid, Mamluk and Qajar metalwork. By examining architecture, ceramics, ivories and textiles, seventeenth-century Iranian painting and contemporary art, the book explores a wide range of artistic production and historical periods from the Umayyad caliphate to the modern Middle East. This rich and detailed volume makes a significant contribution to the fields of Art History, Architecture and Islamic Studies, bringing new objects to light, and shedding new light on old objects.
Arts and Culture in the Early Islamic World
Title | Arts and Culture in the Early Islamic World PDF eBook |
Author | Lizann Flatt |
Publisher | Life in the Early Islamic Worl |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9780778721673 |
Explores art in the Islamic world, including architecture, decoration, household objects, books, music, and illustrations.
Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Title | Islamic Art in the Metropolitan Museum of Art PDF eBook |
Author | Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.) |
Publisher | Metropolitan Museum of Art |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1972 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0870991116 |
The Dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic Art
Title | The Dragon in Medieval East Christian and Islamic Art PDF eBook |
Author | Sara Kuehn |
Publisher | BRILL |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2011-07-12 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9004209727 |
This book is a pioneering work on a key iconographic motif, that of the dragon. It examines the perception of this complex, multifaceted motif within the overall intellectual and visual universe of the medieval Irano-Turkish world. Using a broadly comparative approach, the author explores the ever-shifting semantics of the dragon motif as it emerges in neighbouring Muslim and non-Muslim cultures. The book will be of particular interest to those concerned with the relationship between the pre-Islamic, Islamic and Eastern Christian (especially Armenian) world. The study is fully illustrated, with 209 (b/w and full colour) plates, many of previously unpublished material. Illustrations include photographs of architectural structures visited by the author, as well as a vast collection of artefacts, all of which are described and discussed in detail with inscription readings, historical data and textual sources.
Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World
Title | Metalwork and Material Culture in the Islamic World PDF eBook |
Author | Venetia Porter |
Publisher | I.B. Tauris |
Pages | 544 |
Release | 2012-06-30 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9781780763231 |
The material and visual culture of the Islamic World casts vast arcs through space and time, and encompasses a huge range of artefacts and monuments from the minute to the grandiose, from ceramic pots to the great mosques. Here, Venetia Porter and Mariam Rosser-Owen assemble leading experts in the field to examine both the objects themselves and the ways in which they reflect their historical, cultural and economic contexts. With a focus on metalwork, this volume includes an important new study of Mosul metalwork and presents recent discoveries in the fields of Fatimid, Mamluk and Qajar metalwork. By examining architecture, ceramics, ivories and textiles, seventeenth-century Iranian painting and contemporary art, the book explores a wide range of artistic production and historical periods from the Umayyad caliphate to the modern Middle East. This rich and detailed volume makes a significant contribution to the fields of Art History, Architecture, and Islamic Studies, bringing new objects to light, and shedding new light on old objects